Morocco’s Archaeological site Oued Beht Wins 2025 Antiquity Prize

The 2025 Antiquity Prize, established by the prestigious archaeological journal Antiquity, has been awarded to the study of the Oued Beht site in Morocco. The archaeological fieldwork carried out in Morocco has uncovered a hitherto unknown early farming society from a poorly understood period of north-west African prehistory, revealing for the first time the importance […]

Morocco-US: MCC funds development of three new industrial parks

The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) will fund the development of three new industrial parks in Had Soualem, Bouznika and Sahel Lakhyayta, reports L’Economiste daily. The MCA-Morocco Agency has already launched tenders for the planning, development and management of these three parks, to extend over 140 hectares. The parks are aimed to attract investment and create […]

Aborted coup in Bissau: “The situation is under control”

Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo escaped a coup attempt on Tuesday, the latest in a series of coups across West Africa. Mr. Embalo, a former general who arrived in 2020 at the head of this country with a political history marked by such events, appeared Tuesday evening before the press unharmed and serene, after having […]